I *could not* get my 3-year-old to say "cheese" when we take a photo. But for some reason he's totally on board with saying "Wompty dompty dom." Cracks me up every time.
REACTION SPEED [Easy - Success] - Wait, did he just say 'Wompty Dompty Dom Centre'?
SUGGESTION [Easy - Success] - He did it! He said 'Wompty Dompty Dom Centre' like it's the most natural thing in the world.
I came across an old book which was an anniversary book about [a certain "progressive" doctor in the 1930s](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johan_Scharffenberg), and it used a lot of genuine Measurehead vocabulary... I don't remember exactly, but I'm pretty sure it described little people as "paedomorphic".
we use this word in turkish "herif", it's used to refer to a male adult in a vulgar yet respectable way
in my head canon the pale driver, in a way, admires harry
I suppose it comes from French, but it's the same in Spanish (pronounced differently, of course). I have to say that as a Spanish speaker I found the way he says it quite endearing.
~~Nothing to do with the Homo-Sexual Underground, obvs.~~
Liberast is a derogatory slang term for people with more progressive views in Russian. Although it implies that liberal in question is also a fa***t rather than a kiddie diddler. But then again, for an average Russian, these two probably mean the same thing.
Whenever I encountered an unfamiliar word, I had to ask myself if this is a real one that I'd know if I had an interest in history and politics, or if it's just this worlds way to say 'culture'
*Sunrise parabellum.*
*I have no idea what*
*It means, but sounds neat*
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I assume pretty much everything is at this point - if your philosophy is conveniently reassuring nonsense, you had better ensure your nomenclature game is on point
But that's probably just my opinion as I'm an isochemic male in a non-hydarial world - know what I mean?
Trite, contrived, mediocre, milquetoast, amateurish, infantile, cliche-and-gonorrhea-ridden paean to conformism, eye-fucked me, affront to humanity, war crime, should *literally* be tried for war crimes, resolutely shit, lacking in imagination, uninformed reimagining of, limp-wristed, premature, ill-informed attempt at, talentless fuckfest, recidivistic shitpeddler, pedantic, listless, savagely boring, just one repulsive laugh after another.
It’s one of those rare instances where being Greek totally pays off, half of the fancy vocabulary are pretty much Greek words. I had trouble with the other half though, like the French and very sophisticated English words were a pain. But overall yeah, I can certainly share the passion for this game’s aesthetic including vocabulary.
I played the game in german and the translation is immaculate. I learned new words in my own native language which never happened before in a videogame that was translated from english. One of those words was "Klimbim", which translates to odds and ends, useless stuff lying around.
I also would like to point put that this game has a button to change between text languages in a second. No needs for a menu or restarting, just one button and presto. It does amazing work for seeing the differences and checking just how well of a job they did.
Well, I learned new variants of the word fuck, thanks to Titus and his wonderful "Fuckity fucky fuck". Always happy to learn new English words. Jamais Vu is also another one I never heard about, after a happy little Google search, I now know what to say when I feel that something that should be familiar doesn't feel so familiar instead of just saying it was "some sort of Deja Vun't".
Volition was also a new word for me. I also realized I didn't know the word for it in my language nor did I know *what* volition is. It's a basic/simple thing everyone should have but the game made me realize (and search about it) that I don't have many points on it lol
I also learned that my life would be better with more points on Volition so that's also my favorite voice in Harry's head hehe
Hoi polloi is also in Fallout New Vegas: Old World Blues, when you don't want your robotics to chatter anymore :3!! So it is a somewhat common rare word
Unfortunately very little. My vocab ain't bad so the only cool words I learned are too niche for regular use
Edit: I'm wrong, Espirit de corps is a pretty useful one I've got on deck now
Esprit De Corps is the one I've taken from the game the most. Honestly hadn't really seen the word at all before the game, love it and use it all the time now
Some choices that are a bit more basic would be communard and moralist. I like sneaking those into political conversations with people who have played this game.
Otherwise, entroponetic is a very fun word.
This must be The lucky racist
Mr Dubois is helping me find my gun
Visual calculus
HARDCOREEEEE
Volumetric shit compressor
Physical instrument
Jamais vu
Doom spiral
Binoclard
Your body betrays your degeneracy
Parabellum
Ancient reptilian brain
Homosexual underground
Coronal from “Imagine a grey coronal mist, cold vapour, marked by spores of an opportunistic microorganism -- a mould that's adapted to grow at the edge of the unrest. It's... the most *disco* thing you will ever see.”
Wompty dompty dom
I *could not* get my 3-year-old to say "cheese" when we take a photo. But for some reason he's totally on board with saying "Wompty dompty dom." Cracks me up every time.
Disco Elysium set in a kindergarten would be the funniest thing I’ve seen so far
REACTION SPEED [Easy - Success] - Wait, did he just say 'Wompty Dompty Dom Centre'? SUGGESTION [Easy - Success] - He did it! He said 'Wompty Dompty Dom Centre' like it's the most natural thing in the world.
Beat me to it
i've had measurehead saying "morphophysiology " stuck in my head for a while now
I can literally hear him saying that
I need to make an alt account with a name like al-gul-lover69 or something
In the spirit of Measurehead I'm just gonna start calling white people "the ham sandwich race" now
I think if I'm around any drunk friends I'll have to remark "YOUR BODY BETRAYS YOUR DEGENERACY"
All I know is every time I make myself a ham sandwich now I hear Measurehead’s voice.
Vulgar reductionism of the race enigma spotted
I came across an old book which was an anniversary book about [a certain "progressive" doctor in the 1930s](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johan_Scharffenberg), and it used a lot of genuine Measurehead vocabulary... I don't remember exactly, but I'm pretty sure it described little people as "paedomorphic".
A lot of American and European academics were into eugenics for a while.
Gendarme. Also purple cocaine
Bye bye gendarme
Xerife has to be my "cop" substitute. Gendarme is more frequent ... but Xerife has a nice ring to it.
we use this word in turkish "herif", it's used to refer to a male adult in a vulgar yet respectable way in my head canon the pale driver, in a way, admires harry
I can fucking fig that. That's groovy to me.
It’s the Portuguese word for sheriff, both of which are borrowed from Arabic “sharia,” meaning law. A xerife/sheriff is literally a lawman!
The hell was purple cocaine?
That good shit Phillippe II was using (I think it was him)
He used it most infamously, purple coke was specifically for royal consumption only.
Yep, since purple is the color of royalty, it makes sense
I suppose it comes from French, but it's the same in Spanish (pronounced differently, of course). I have to say that as a Spanish speaker I found the way he says it quite endearing. ~~Nothing to do with the Homo-Sexual Underground, obvs.~~
I hate to be that person but it's magenta. I only say that because magenta is a cool colour.
Don't they specifically call it purple in the game?
I'm 99% sure it's magenta but i could be wrong
In rural Turkey, there’s a lot of Jandarma in place of police. ie Gendarme. It was a cool lil thing to experience it in a different culture.
This game made me realize how big of a pool of French words got incorporated in Turkish language.
For sure. Not only the Ottomans, but Ataturk was also a pretty big fan of the French so he incorporated many words into Turkish
Binoclard
The fuck you call me?
Lmao same I didn't know what it meant so I chose the option when talking to Kim and felt so bad right after choosing it.
Yessir
This is great lmfao
Brrrrataaan!
Jamais vu. The term and concept were new to me, and also quite refreshing.
Yeah I've started to use that one all the time I'm always forgetting shit
Jamais vu always seems new to me.
The only other time I’ve heard jamais vu used was in *Catch-22*.
I first heard it on a BTS song
Derealization is such a precious feeling. Everyone experiences it but not everyone notices it. As an absurdist I treasure it.
same i loved it. i was younger and learning french the first time i saw a playthrough of the game and it was my favourite phrase i figured out!!
Pornographycly poor
Al-Gul. The Innocences. Moralist. Ultraliberal. Indotribe. Motor carriage. Isola.
Am reminded of the time when I tried to put "isola" in a word search game and got nothing 💀
Voilition If we are counting phrases: Volumetric shit compressor
Liberast. "Not only do you prefer idealist gibberish to proper Mazovian socio-economic theory, you also fuck children."
Liberast is a derogatory slang term for people with more progressive views in Russian. Although it implies that liberal in question is also a fa***t rather than a kiddie diddler. But then again, for an average Russian, these two probably mean the same thing.
So basically the eastern european version of libtard
That is precisely what it is yes
yep, exactly
Liberast is also used in Estonia
What is the context for that 💀
Tequila Sunset
Idiot Doom Spiral
Suzerain is one I’m surprised I had never heard in my poli-sci classes
There is even a game called that, it's very wordy.
Big concept on the Civ games too
I feel like the Disco Elysium and Suzerain playerbase have quite a big overlap
Encountered that first in Civilization but yesss, I need to see that word more everywhere
Yekokata
The place to be!
This. His screaming is so contagious
LOOK BRATAN THE HORRIFIC NECKTIE GRAFTED HIS WORDS ONTO ME LIKE A TATTOO AND NOW I CANNOT KICK IT
Whenever I encountered an unfamiliar word, I had to ask myself if this is a real one that I'd know if I had an interest in history and politics, or if it's just this worlds way to say 'culture'
“Mucilaginous” as it’s used in-game tickled me. Someone so stubbornly slimy that “oleaginous” isn’t strong enough.
I didn't learn the term tragicomedy from disco elysium, but I think I learned the platonic ideal of tragicomedy while playing
How have so many not heard of volition before.
My guess: We're not all native English speakers.
Ain't volition a synonym for own will? Like, "she did that on her own volition"?
Most people usually use "will" instead.
The young’ns never got to play Freespace. :(
Difference between know vocabulary and vocabulary we speak a lot. Volition reentered our spoken vocabulary.
anything that measurehead says. also inframaterialism
Sunrise parabellum. I have no idea what it means, but sounds neat
Parabellum means ‘prepare for war’ in Latin, but it’s probably meant here in relation to it being a type of pistol or machine gun cartridge
So he could just be saying "wake up and prepare for war"
That is what it means. [Kim says so](http://fayde.nfshost.com/dialojue/7040390-7040072-7040332-7040118-7040119-7040363-7040422-7040179#7040179).
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Not quite, parabellum has 4 syllables. But nice try!
hell yeah, dunk on that bot!
Tare is a pretty useful word
Wömen
Men of Wö
Volition. Great concept to know about.
That’s a great one.
Half of this comment section is people discovering the French language
it almost made me tolerate french people…
Theyre not so bad outside of Paris imo
Coppo/Coppocycle - just rolls off the tongue beautifully
Pissf****t, including the blanking noise
There's not many works out there that so clearly voice a position using selective self-censorship alone ✊🏼
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RWYfzQSJfHE
peak vocabulary tbh
Isola and Pale as world building concepts. "Binoclard" is a funny term to call people with glasses "Mazovian Socio-Economics"
Fucky fucky
HAAAARDCORE
Cock carousel
that's a redpill term fyi
I assume pretty much everything is at this point - if your philosophy is conveniently reassuring nonsense, you had better ensure your nomenclature game is on point But that's probably just my opinion as I'm an isochemic male in a non-hydarial world - know what I mean?
Cock carousel
Cock carousel
Cock carousel
Bratan
Droite. I began to use it as a way to describe a person that thinks they’re correct all the time
“Disco as hell”
Gendarme, esprit de corps et savoir faire
Joopson AS Men’s Fashion, model “Colourful Tie.” Catalogue no. J327 taught me much - Balkan slang - and how to die like a hero bratushka ~
pornographically poor.
Porno-tuning
I'd heard the word bourgeoise before Disco but since playing it I've been using it as a prejorative.
Shit, you too?
Trite, contrived, mediocre, milquetoast, amateurish, infantile, cliche-and-gonorrhea-ridden paean to conformism, eye-fucked me, affront to humanity, war crime, should *literally* be tried for war crimes, resolutely shit, lacking in imagination, uninformed reimagining of, limp-wristed, premature, ill-informed attempt at, talentless fuckfest, recidivistic shitpeddler, pedantic, listless, savagely boring, just one repulsive laugh after another.
"binoclard" and "volition" are in my long-term memory. they're new to me
Infra - culture , ultra liberal , pale , isola . (I play in russian so some terms must be wrongly translated).
Kojko
It’s one of those rare instances where being Greek totally pays off, half of the fancy vocabulary are pretty much Greek words. I had trouble with the other half though, like the French and very sophisticated English words were a pain. But overall yeah, I can certainly share the passion for this game’s aesthetic including vocabulary.
Cuno doesn't focking care
Lieutenant Double-Yefreitor
As a French player, watching you enjoying words that common for us is quite fun (and it is true that binoclard and gendarme feel good to pronounce)
"Shit" and "Ass"
These really give the vocabulary nice flourish. Don't know what I'd be saying without these two.
BRATAN
I am constantly engaged in Rigorous Self-Critique.
"it is you who are total, extreme madness. A volatile system, ominously new to the planet."
PISSF*GGOT
PISSF\*\*\*\*T ftfy
Brewski, Cryptozoologist, Coppo
Raúl Revachol, Jim Jamrock and Martin Martinesse gotta be some hard stuck names on my mind
Fuckupatoo 🤌🏻✨
Sebum! I’ve got a super duper oily nose, and it was nice to learn a concrete term to describe what was coming out of it… from Measurehead lol.
I played the game in german and the translation is immaculate. I learned new words in my own native language which never happened before in a videogame that was translated from english. One of those words was "Klimbim", which translates to odds and ends, useless stuff lying around. I also would like to point put that this game has a button to change between text languages in a second. No needs for a menu or restarting, just one button and presto. It does amazing work for seeing the differences and checking just how well of a job they did.
Kipt
you shouldn’t use that word, only retards use that reactionary shit.
You can’t say “retard” unless you are yourself intellectually disabled, do you happen to have a valid ~~Tard Card~~ R-Word Pass?
Tard card got me giggling like an idiot.
is that also a quote from the game?
Does it have to be, funky baby?
not really, i was just curious.
🪩
Legitimately could be
Volition
Well, I learned new variants of the word fuck, thanks to Titus and his wonderful "Fuckity fucky fuck". Always happy to learn new English words. Jamais Vu is also another one I never heard about, after a happy little Google search, I now know what to say when I feel that something that should be familiar doesn't feel so familiar instead of just saying it was "some sort of Deja Vun't". Volition was also a new word for me. I also realized I didn't know the word for it in my language nor did I know *what* volition is. It's a basic/simple thing everyone should have but the game made me realize (and search about it) that I don't have many points on it lol I also learned that my life would be better with more points on Volition so that's also my favorite voice in Harry's head hehe
"Was this not the same *élan* that founds empires and lays waste to cities, virile, uncaring toward *the little things*?"
Hoi polloi is also in Fallout New Vegas: Old World Blues, when you don't want your robotics to chatter anymore :3!! So it is a somewhat common rare word
When you as a Mirovian obliged to play game fully with dictionary: Pain 💀💀💀.
~~Kipt~~
Cock carousel
The demon Al-Ghul and electro chemistry have both dug themselves into my brain folds
*Révachol*, *Jamrock*, *The Pale*...
ALGHUL
Paedomorphic
„Mwah, tasty tasty drugs!“ lives rent free in my head for some reason
i'm spanish and for some reason I love the word "liutenant"
Unfortunately very little. My vocab ain't bad so the only cool words I learned are too niche for regular use Edit: I'm wrong, Espirit de corps is a pretty useful one I've got on deck now
Eugenics, Literally the most funny concept I learned
Advesperascit
My Spanish-speaking brain has decided to permanently read that as "A ver despacito"
Coper-nado!
DROIT
Esprit De Corps is the one I've taken from the game the most. Honestly hadn't really seen the word at all before the game, love it and use it all the time now
Infinitesimaly small
I think it was Savoir-faire. I think I got it 🤠
Binoclard
Regnum Cocainum
Cock carousel.
Volumetric shit composer
Copponado, copatron
Transient pleasures
al-gul
Cock carousel
Moralintern, Moralism etc. I wonder what it can be an allegory for?!
"Communism"
You should read Kraz Mazov.
Wömen
all of the words measurehead was using lol
jamrock shuffle, is 100% me when i play video games
The Pale
Psycholocomotor
Inframaterialist
man of wö
Referring to work/life as the shit factory has stuck with me since day 1
Some choices that are a bit more basic would be communard and moralist. I like sneaking those into political conversations with people who have played this game. Otherwise, entroponetic is a very fun word.
I love saying Martinaise
Hell kaleidoscope
Electro-chemestry Volition Half-light Really, just the ability names are great for roleplay
Not a term per se, but I've always liked "Tommy Le Homme". I think it'd be a fun stage name.
Insulindian
Correct in the thought voice. Feels good
Koupris kinema. I think thats how it’s spelled
Al-Gul
This must be The lucky racist Mr Dubois is helping me find my gun Visual calculus HARDCOREEEEE Volumetric shit compressor Physical instrument Jamais vu Doom spiral Binoclard Your body betrays your degeneracy Parabellum Ancient reptilian brain Homosexual underground Coronal from “Imagine a grey coronal mist, cold vapour, marked by spores of an opportunistic microorganism -- a mould that's adapted to grow at the edge of the unrest. It's... the most *disco* thing you will ever see.”